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Mary Katherine S. Ngai

 

Mary K. S. Ngai (aka Maksn) received a Bachelor’s degree in Advertising Arts from the University in San Carlos in 2011, and received her Master's degree in Visual Development at the Academy of Art University in 2018.

She is a strong advocate for expression and emotional representation through illustration and stories, and is a huge fan of films by Makoto Shinkai and Mamoru Hosoda.

She is also a big videogame nerd for titles by Klei, Blizzard, Vanillaware, Atlus, and the Zero Escape series written by Kotaro Uchikoshi.

Her professional interests focus on storyboarding, graphic design, character design and illustration. With her Advertising background, she worked as a graphic designer and marketing assistant for GreatNonprofits. She was later hired on as a Character and UI Artist for Block and Chain Game Studios.